CVE-2008-5703

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.2 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2008-12-22 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-59

Description

gpsdrive (aka gpsdrive-scripts) 2.10~pre4 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the (a) /tmp/.smswatch or (b) /tmp/gpsdrivepos temporary file, related to (1) examples/gpssmswatch and (2) src/splash.c, different vectors than CVE-2008-4959 and CVE-2008-5380.

Affected products

Gpsdrive: through 2.10; 1.32, 1.33, 2.09

References

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=508597
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/12/17/15
http://secunia.com/advisories/31694
http://secunia.com/advisories/33825
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=2121124&group_id=148048&atid=770280
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32887
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-February/msg00187.html
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=508597
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/12/17/15
http://secunia.com/advisories/31694
http://secunia.com/advisories/33825
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=2121124&group_id=148048&atid=770280

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